Rachel was a Visiting Fellow for Heritage’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies and the Center for Education Policy. A classical liberal arts education broadens students’ horizons beyond the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on issues in higher ed including access and economic mobility. This article is more than 2 years old. “America’s two great ...

U.S. President Donald Trump stands with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon after signing an executive order to reduce the ...

As the Trump administration works to impose its values across American institutions, higher education has become a favored target and the federal budget its principal weapon.The discourse surrounding ...

Hess is director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. McShane is director of research at EdChoice. They are the authors of Getting Education Right: A Conservative Vision ...

On a special episode (first released on March 26, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Are schools providing the best education possible for all their students? This episode's guest argues that the U.S.

Schools are increasingly abandoning their mission as assimilators of immigrants because education elites no longer believe in that mission. But parents and the American public still do. The best way ...

The U.S. Department of Education has several existing statutory authorities to consider in addressing the challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence (AI). Governing for Impact (GFI) and ...

It’s not jingoistic to point out that America, in spite of some worrisome decline, is still number one in many other spheres. In terms of military might, industrial capacity and technological ...

The Department of Education (ED) on Wednesday announced a historic partnership with Turning Point USA to help with nationwide civics education as America approaches its 250th birthday. Although the ...

The announcement that the Department of Education (DOE) will lay off another 1,300 employees, reducing the staff to half its previous size of around 4,100, is more than a restructuring—it's a direct ...